The Jamaica Medical Doctors Association Hurricane Melissa Disaster Relief Fund.
How You Can Help:
1️⃣ Donations (USD)
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I know there is a looming crisis here in america but if you can spare anything Jamaica was hit horribly by Hurricane Melissa and people are hurting *right now.*

💛 Together Through the Storm
The Black River Police Station opens its doors to residents displaced by flooding. Southwestern Jamaica faces heavy damage from Hurricane Melissa.

The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Vulnerable Communities: What the Clinician Should Know - PubMed The COVID-19 pandemic unmasked striking health disparities within the US healthcare system and significantly impacted vulnerable populations. While much attention on vulnerability has been directed to...

Now more than ever, clinicians need to know how to assist the vulnerable individuals they serve. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40068973/

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

I encourage all of us committed to providing the best care for our patients to amplify the voices of trusted, credible information. Increase your peer review and editorial activities! It is better to prevent harmful poorly conducted studies from getting published than to retract.

Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

HMPV Is Just a Mild Seasonal Illness, Experts Say Cases of hMPV are increasing in China, but the virus is not new. It's a seasonal respiratory illness.

www.verywellhealth.com/hmpv-cases-r...

Any updates on this 2.8% cut in CMS physician reimbursements by Jan 2025? www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

a man in a white shirt is standing in a corn field at sunset . Alt: Kevin Costner from field of dreams is standing in a corn field at sunset . Text says “if you build it, they will come”

Good news:

Our community is growing!

The IDSky Starter Pack has exceeded the max 150 accounts, so I’ve started on another (pls share here and the other place, and LMK if I missed you)

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The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University
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Who gets PCV20 vs. Prevnar21? #IDsky

CMV disease after solid organ transplantation was not significantly different between prophylaxis (usually administered for ~ 3 months) or preemptive approach. Late-onset CMV disease was significantly lower in the preemptive arm.
RCT? #idsky #medsky

#idboardreview 5 cases of fatigue, runny nose, conjunctivitis in dairy farm workers in California in 2024. None hospitalized. Likely diagnosis? Per contact tracing, no person-to-person transmission #idsky #idmeded #meded

Who declines “opt-out” HIV/HCV testing? Experience of an internal medicine resident continuity clinic serving a predominantly Black adult population in South Carolina. Universal “opt-out” human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing involves testing individuals for HIV or HCV regardless of sy…

With the upcoming resurgence of HIV denialism, it will be key for institutions to understand the volume, demographics, and needs of people who opt out of HIV testing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Congress Is Making Funding Decisions Now: Urge Them to Protect ID/HIV Funding Ask your members of Congress to support robust funding for vital ID/HIV programs.

Getting pumped to dive into advocacy with @idsainfo.bsky.social given the political landscape in our country. #IDSky #HIVSky

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The push towards greater transparency and public access to medical research is not new.

In fact, the rise of 'Open Data'—information that is free, easy to understand, and publicly available—can be traced back to its roots at a 2013 G8 Summit.

The scientific community supports transparency. 🙌

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